Improvement in brooms



Broom.

Patented Aliqust 8, 1871y .ADDISON WILLIS. Improd FFICE.

PAT if ADDISON WILLIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,844, dated August8, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, AnnrsoN WILLIS, ofthe city of Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Brooms, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has reference to a class of brooms es1')ecially adapted toheavy sweeping; and consists in binding in rattan or other wood withbroom-corn in the manner hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Figure I is a sectional View of my improved broom, Fi g.II, a similar View, showing the method of manufacture in detail.

A is a standard or handle, to which the brush material is attached. B isa layer of wood-splints, secured to the standard A by a wire or cord, C.D is a layer of broom-corn, attached to the handle in a similar manner;B1, another layer of woodsplints and D1, another layer of broom-corn;B2, a third layer of wood; and D2, a third layer of the corn.

The manner of constructing the broom is as follows: A lz yer ofwood-splints, B, of twice the length of the brush, required is bound inthe middle of the layer to the handle A by winding the wire or cord Caround the handle outside of the layer. The upper half of the layer, orthat part extending up the handle above the wire, as shown in Fig. II,is then bent down over the Wire so as to overlap the layer below thewire, and the double layer thus formed is bound as before. If thisdouble layer is not of suicient thickness another is laid on in the sameway over the first. Vhen the desired thickness of wood has been securedsomebrooin-corn is next added andbound about with the wire, then anotherlayer of wood,

and so on until the desired size of broom -is reached, finishing witheither wood or broomcorn, as may be preferred. Instead of makingthe'first layer to consist of wood, corn may be first used and thenWood.

The construction may also often be varied as follows: After a layer ofwood-splints has been bound to the hannle, but before 'the upper half isbent over, the proper amount of broom-corn is added and then the upperhalf brought down over the corn, andthe wood and corn both boundtogether.

In order to bend the wood-splints over the wire Without breaking themthey are first steamed.

After the desired size of broom has been attained it is finished intheusual manner by winding wire over the part next the handle andstitching the brush with wire or cord in the customary Way. The methodof securing the wood-splints admits of no possibility of their workingout or loose, and, in fact, it is found by experience that thebroom-corn is also held more securely by this style of construction.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a broom formed of wood-splints andbroom-corn, when arranged and constructed in the manner described, andsecured upon the handle A by the fastenings C C, as herein shown anddescribed.

In witness whereof' I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

Vitnesses: ADDISON WILLIS.

C. C. PncK, Gno. W. MIATT.

